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UPDATES 5 pm Israel time Monday:
* According to the Egyptians, 17 missiles headed for Hamas in Gaza have been intercepted by Egyptian forces in the Sinai.
Some of the intercepted weapons in the Sinai this morning.
*Problems continue at the Gaza Border fence with two Hamas terrorists captured in Kissufim last night after having breached the fence.
*”Rock” throwing in major Palestinian cities in Judea and Samaria continues by the hour–most recently at 3:15 pm in Ramallah.
TODAY’S BLOG:
It has now been just over a month (33 days) since Benjamin Netanyahu, Ehud Barak, and Avigdor Lieberman agreed to a ceasefire with the Hamas terrorist regime in Gaza.
As has been amply reported in this blog, the terms of that ceasefire were abominable.
Most importantly, the buffer zone between Israel and Gaza was eliminated (note in “israelstreet breaking news” the infiltrations and mob attacks in the last 24 hours alone)–suddenly and massively exposing Israeli communities and IDF soldiers on the Gaza border to unnecessary danger.
But at least, you may say, the rocket fire from Gaza has stopped. People can come out of their bomb shelters and lead normal lives again.
But is that really true?
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At 7:47 pm last night, all of communities along the border were sent running for cover again by the tsava adom (red siren) which detected a launch from Gaza. What happened to the rocket? Various reports had the rocket “hitting an open area” in the Eshkol region or “crashing back into Gaza” without striking Israel.
Of course, there were no reports of any of this in the Israeli or international media.
In short, the Gaza problem is not going away. The drip, drip, drip of missile fire will gradually increase until we have a replay of the events of last month, which were a replay of the events of three years ago.
So what is there to be done about Gaza?
There was a very interesting opinion piece that appeared in Al Arabiya yesterday written by Saudi Ibrahim Al-Majari. In Al Majari’s opinion, the way for Egypt and Israel to solve the Gaza “problem” is for Egypt to annex Gaza (your humble servant has already pointed out that Egypt is moving in this direction by granting Egyptian citizenship to thousands of Gazans).
In Al-Majari’s opinion, “Sadat made a mistake when he abandoned a territory that had for decades been under Egyptian rule.” Al-Majari goes on to point out: “This mistake was, however, a personal choice on the part of Sadat and was only approved by his aides. The Egyptian people, on the other hand, did not approve of a treaty that would isolate Gaza.”
To Al-Majari the benefits of such an annexation are obvious: Egypt “will be spared the repercussions of the constant conflict between Gaza and Israel”, and Israel will “get rid of the threat posed by militias in the strip [with the] guarantee that no further attacks will be launched from there.”
Then Al-Majari, in a paragraph so uncharacteristically realistic that it deserves to be printed here, points out that from a geographical standpoint, it is time for Gaza to part ways with “the West Bank”:
“There is also a geographical factor involved. It is almost impossible for Gaza and the West Bank to be united when they are separated by Israeli land in the middle. How then can they form one homeland? Would Israel open its borders for Palestinians to move freely from Gaza to the West Bank and vice versa? Or will a 57-kilometer long tunnel be dug between both, as Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barack once proposed? Or do we expect the Israeli authorities to give Palestinians land that connects Gaza to the West Bank? It is, therefore, extremely far-fetched to create a unified territory of two lands separated by more than 60 kilometers.”
Well there it is. Finally, we have a statement from an Arab source which states the reality of the situation. Would Hamas in Gaza ever agree to such an annexation? Again, as has been pointed out in previous israelstreet blogs (click here for one such blog), in some ways it already has.
The time has come for this arrangement to be developed and pursued. There are few alternatives.
A student from Malawi, who had worked with an Israeli health volunteer in his country battling AIDS, came up to us as we walked down the street in the UC-Davis Picnic Day Parade and wanted to carry the Israeli flag.